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EASTER TERM 2026

 

The Monday seminar
Meetings take place 16.30-18.30 pm in room 1.11, Faculty of Classics.

11 May
Oliver Primavesi 'Speusippus on the One and the Indefinite Dyad'

18 May
Emily Hulme 'Evil Technē? Craft and Normativity in Plato'

25 May
Christian Keime 'Hesiod's 'cosmogonic' Erōs from Plato to Byzantium: a philosophical myth?'

 

 

The B Club 
Meetings take place on Thursdays, 17.00, in room 1.11 of the Faculty of Classics.

7 May
Mehmet Erginel
'Varieties of conflict in Plato's Republic' (Eastern Mediterranean University)

28 May
Patricio A. Fernandez (University of Texas at Austin)
TBA

 

 

Latest news

Cambridge Classicists on Nolan's Odyssey

17 July 2026

Today marks the highly anticipated theatrical release of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey . Starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, the film is generating lots of discussion across the global classics community. As people everywhere head to cinemas, academics from the Faculty are already exploring how...

Script Keepers Network Wins Cultural Collaboration Award

28 July 2026

The Script Keepers Network —co-led by Pippa Steele (Faculty of Classics and the VIEWS Project ) and Tim Brookes ( Endangered Alphabets Project )—has been awarded the prestigious NCACE Emerging Academic Cultural Collaboration Award by the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange . The award recognises outstanding...

New Fellows welcomed to the British Academy

17 July 2026

The Faculty notes with pleasure that Professor James Warren has been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship , joining an eminent community of scholars who share a commitment to advancing the humanities and social sciences. Current British Academy Fellows in the Faculty include Professors Emily Gowers, Stephen Oakley...

Prix des Libraires Payot 2026

23 June 2026

The Faculty is delighted to report that Prof. Josephine Quinn was awarded the Prix des Libraires Payot 2026 on June 18 for her book, Et le monde créa L'Occident (or, How the World Made the West).